TABS(1) | General Commands Manual | TABS(1) |
tabs
— set
terminal tabs
tabs |
[-n |-a |-a2 |-c |-c2 |-c3 |-f |-p |-s |-u ]
[+m[n]] [-T type] |
tabs |
[-T type] [+[n]]
n1[,n2,...] |
The tabs
utility displays a series of
characters that first clears the hardware terminal tab settings and then
initializes the tab stops at the specified positions and optionally adjusts
the margin.
The phrase "tab-stop position N" means that, from the start of a line of output, tabbing to position N shall cause the next character output to be in the (N+1)th column on that line.
The following options are supported:
-
ntabs
with no
arguments is equivalent to tabs
-8
. When -0
is used, the
tab stops are cleared and no new ones set.-a
tabs
1,10,16,36,72 .-a2
tabs
1,10,16,40,72-c
tabs
1,8,12,16,20,55-c2
tabs
1,6,10,14,49-c3
-c2
. Equivalent to tabs
1,6,10,14,18,22,26,30,34,38,42,46,50,54,58,62,67-f
tabs
1,7,11,15,19,23-p
tabs
1,5,9,13,17,21,25,29,33,37,41,45,49,53,57,61-s
tabs
1,10,55-T
type-u
tabs
1,12,20,44The COLUMNS
and
TERM
environment variables affect the execution of
tabs
as described in
environ(7).
The -T
option overrides
TERM
. If neither TERM
nor
the -T
option are present,
tabs
will fail.
The tabs
utility exits 0 on
success, and >0 if an error occurs.
The tabs
utility conforms to
IEEE Std 1003.1 (“POSIX.1”).
A tabs
utility first appeared in PWB UNIX.
This implementation was introduced in NetBSD
6.0.
Roy Marples <roy@NetBSD.org>
April 5, 2012 | NetBSD 10.99 |